Firefox Reaches 10 Million Downloads

Samhain138 writes "It seems like Firefox has finally reached 10 million downloads, just a bit over a month after Firefox 1.0 was released. Congratulations!" My favorite extensions (not all of which worked when 1.0 first came out) are all working happily now, too; the latest nightly has been working flawlessly for me all of today.

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Re:IE IS DEAD!

[linguae]

Netcraft just replied back with the news:

It is official, Netcraft confirms: Internet Explorer is DYING

One more crippling bombshell hit the already beleaguered Internet Explorer community when IDC confirmed that the Internet Explorer user base has dropped yet again, now down to less than 60 percent of all browsers. Coming on the heels of a recent Netcraft survey which plainly states that Internet Explorer has lost more users, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Internet Explorer is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent Browser Usability Polls.

You don't need to be Miss Cleo to predict Internet Explorer's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Internet Explorer faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Internet Explorer because Internet Explorer is dying. Things are looking very bad for Internet Explorer. As many of us are already aware, Internet Explorer continues to lose it's users. Worms and malware come and go just like the flu.

Internet Explorer for Macintosh is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core developers. The sudden and unpleasant departures of long time Internet Explorer for Mac developers only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Internet Explorer for Macintosh is dying.

Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.

Internet Explorer leader states that there are 300 million users of Internet Explorer. How many users of Internet Explorer for Macintosh are there? Let's see. The number of Internet Explorer for Windows versus Internet Explorer for Macintosh posts on Usenet is roughly in ratio of 1000 to 1. Therefore there are about 300,000,000/100 = 300,000 IE for Macintosh users. Internet Explorer on Wine on Linux posts on Usenet are about 5 percent of the volume of IE for Macintosh posts. Therefore there are about 15,000 users of Internet Explorer on Wine on Linux. Therefore there are (300,000,000 + 300,000 + 15,000) = 300,315,000 Internet Explorer users. This is consistent with the number of Internet Explorer Usenet posts.

Due to the troubles of Redmond, abysmal sales and so on, Internet Explorer was discontinued and was taken over by AOL who uses Internet Explorer in their browser. Now AOL is also dead, its corpse turned over to yet another charnel house.

All major surveys show that Internet Explorer has steadily declined in users. Internet Explorer is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Internet Explorer is to survive at all it will be among clueless lusers. Internet Explorer continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Internet Explorer is dead.

Fact: Internet Explorer is dying

Was that a joke?

[SunPin]

That could give newbies a bad impression of TB...

I know I have a bad impression of TB.

Perhaps the first rule for promoting Thunderbird should be... Don't Call Thunderbird "TB"!

Firefox still needs work.

[beeswax]

Currently, IE loads faster than firefox. Visually it displays pages faster. I think the main issue here is common sense when it comes to adware, spyware, popups. I use IE when I use windows, and I never get adware or spyware. I'm tired of firefox fanboys constantly saying firefox is the best... I don't think there is a best yet. Firefox has its flaws.

If you don't want popups, adware, spyware, use a real browser like lynx.

Re:Firefox still needs work.

[mrchaotica]

You are a troll.

I mean really, how could you diss Firefox and praise lynx in the same post? I agree, lynx is better than Internet Explorer (because of security), but surely Firefox edges out lynx by the fact that it does stuff like -- I dunno -- display graphics, maybe?

Moreover, your post is logically inconsistent. You first say "I use IE...and I never get [malware]" and then say "If you don't want [malware] use a real browser like lynx." Since IE is much more like Firefox than lynx, wouldn't that mean it's not a "real browser" either? Or do you somehow think IE is more "real" than Firefox?

Granted, Firefox isn't perfect. Nothing is. However, if you aren't a troll, you've grossly overstated your argument.